Samantha Bee Quotes

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

Growing up in the public eye isn't easy.

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.

I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'

Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.